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Refurbished
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Audio

Input Device

General

Style

Standard

Type

Mainstream

Usage

Consumer

Power

Battery

6 cell 2.6mAh

Battery Life

Up to 3 hours and 38 minutes

Dimensions & Weight

Dimensions (W x D x H)

14.88" x 9.96" x 1.37"

Weight

5.73 lbs.

Quick Info

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Rating: 5/5Great

Pros: Works great, upgraded the WIFI card to an Intel Centrino Dualband N6200. Restored the Recovery partition with the changehd.exe file in the Asus folder, run it as admin. Then created the recovery DVDs, it took 2 DL. Then ran the DVD restore worked perfect. I don't know why Asus doesn't let refurb buyers know they can do this.

Rating: 5/5

Pros: My grandmother was in desperate need of a new computer and this fit the bill perfectly, it is actually probably over kill for what she uses it for, but its a major upgrade from her old windows Vista machine.

Cons: no cons for my grandma, it goes on facebook and runs her greeting card program. good deal for its price.

Rating: 5/5Fantastic PC

Pros: Superfast boot-up, Windows Performance Index is very high for a notebook. Easy to configure. Light weight, quick battery adjustment mode between performance and life.

Cons: needed to remove Trend Micro and Office 2010 Trial Software.

Other Thoughts: I recommeded this to a friend who needed a good laptop. They didn't want to go the Win 8 route yet. I set it up for her today, loading Avira, Spybot, MalwareBytes, Office 2007, Adobe Photoshop, and networked it to her home system. She was thrilled with the performance and since I put an Asus Router/Repeater... she gets great internet range with this unit anywhere in their large home.

Rating: 5/5As Described

Pros: I wanted to test this out for my uses before making my review. I've done that over the last week and change, so here goes.

First off, I upgraded immediately out of the box to Win 8 Pro. Everything seems to work fine after updating the drivers. The only noticeably fail was the BIOS update not recognizing the K53E as a legitimate ASUS.

I then decided to test out gaming performance (as I wanted something capable of running games half decently). I know a lot of new titles that require DX11 cannot run on the hardware. However, this little fellow manages to power EVE Online at Full-High Detail with all effects at 25-30 FPS easy. Considering that was the majority of my gaming it was more than an impressive increase over my previous laptop who struggled at Medium-Low detail at 20 FPS. Given it's not a true gaming laptop, but given the right conditions it can hold its own.

Next test was multi-tasking. If you reading this review know a bit about EVE, it can become multi-program intensive: Excel, Docs, Database, you name it. We use the whole suite of Office products. Combining those with the aforementioned configuration on my EVE client caused no noticeable hiccup in performance except in the rare case of intense load server side. So in short, the 8GB is plenty adequate, considering it is the max supported.

All in all I'm quite pleased.

Cons: The only downsides are poor manufacturer support for Win8 Pro, but this system is sold and designed for Win7 so I can understand how this complaint would be shuffled off.

Rating: 4/5Decent product

Pros: Fast, sturdy, compliant. Can't ask for a better laptop for the price! I love ASUS laptops, but they do have a reputation for their extremely sensitive touchpads. The K53E fortunately doesn't have that problem, at least not that I can tell.

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